I dunno. Am I back? Probably not. But I woke at 4:30am to find that Trump had bombed nuclear sites in Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan and now I’m sitting here with no one to talk to about it.
Here’s the rub. Iran will have moved any large nuclear arsenal away from the sites (I hope). That’s not to say that there won’t potentially be devastating consequences for the Iranian people close to these sites, I’m just saying that it could be a lot worse (I hope). Think Chernobyl. The ‘No-War’, ‘Peaceful’ President Trump has done the bidding of Satan himself, NetanYahoo, and dragged the U.S and by proxy, all Western allies into yet another War. Think Iraq and Afghanistan. It didn’t take a genius to know that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. American and British warmongers wanted natural resources to fast track the Global North’s economies and boy did they fast track it, think 2008 Financial Crisis and the long slow death of the western world.
I need you, if possible, to take off your soft liberal hat if you’re wearing one, the one that tells your brain that Iran = Bad because of its societal repression. If you know me, you know I couldn’t be more against Religion and its painful, lasting effects on a population, especially on women. But we just need to be on the same page here for a second. Bombing Iran to oblivion isn’t going to make life easier for the Iranian people. I’d like you to think about the current escalation this way. Israel would rather Iran be a country backed into a corner, filled with hatred, a pariah in the world hellbent on creating nuclear weapons than a country with no nuclear weapons with strong economic ties with western powers and a burger king on every corner. Seems pretty backwards, right? Wrong. It’s exactly what Israel has wanted for decades. Constant war on all fronts in order to justify its right to exist. Forever the victim, Israel is killing people in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iran. Yet by their standards, they are the beacon of light in the darkness with shared western values surrounded by the horror of Islam and America keeps falling for it. They want complete and total control of the region with an ever expanding Israeli state with borders reaching as far as their genocidal mania allows them. Let me say this loud and clear. If you are racist towards Arabs, in fact anyone with brown skin, it is because for years and years Zionist entities that own the Western media that we consume have proliferated the idea that people from the ‘Middle East’ are either subhuman camel riders or terrorists. In movies and TV we’ve seen their countries tattered and backwards, nothing like our space age metropolises. These images have been zapped into our eyeballs on a daily basis for our entire lives so that when the time were to come, now, when the Neocons1 waged war on the entire world, we wouldn’t feel sorry for those people with brown skin, those children with their limbs blown off, those Muslims who have nowhere sacred left to pray. Instead we’d cheer and swallow our rising inflation rates and cost of living crises like the good Western patriots we are.
This lie goes as far back as the expansion and colonialism of the America West (actually as far back as the crusades but that’s a whole other thing). To reconcile the supposedly noble mission of Manifest Destiny in the U.S with the brutal reality of land theft, displacement, and mass killings, racism became a crucial ideological tool. Native Americans were portrayed as ‘savages,’ ‘primitive’, or incapable of using land ‘productively’. Sound familiar?
This image made it easier for white Americans to see indigenous people as obstacles rather than as humans with rights, cultures, and sovereignty. European derived legal doctrines like the Doctrine of Discovery allowed Christian nations to claim lands not inhabited by Christians. This religious framework merged with racism, suggesting that non-Christian, non white peoples had no legitimate claim to their land. In other words, they made their settlers racist to make it easier for them to kill those indigenous to the land. This is exactly the playbook used by Zionist settlers in Palestine. America thinks it deserves the throne, that its hegemony in a unilateral world is the epitome of democracy. That’s what all empires thought and where are they now?
It’s 7am. The world’s waking up. Don’t believe all of the lies you’re about to see.
Neoconservatives - relating to or denoting a return to a modified form of a traditional viewpoint, in particular a political ideology characterized by an emphasis on free-market capitalism and an interventionist foreign policy.